linux-kernel - [PATCH v6 08/11] xfs: use kvmalloc for xattr buffers

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Date: Wed, 29 May 2024 15:45:06 +0200
From: "Pankaj Raghav (Samsung)" <kernel@...kajraghav.com>
To: david@...morbit.com,
	chandan.babu@...cle.com,
	akpm@...ux-foundation.org,
	brauner@...nel.org,
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	Dave Chinner <dchinner@...hat.com>,
	Pankaj Raghav <kernel@...kajraghav.com>
Subject: [PATCH v6 08/11] xfs: use kvmalloc for xattr buffers

From: Dave Chinner <dchinner@...hat.com>

Pankaj Raghav reported that when filesystem block size is larger
than page size, the xattr code can use kmalloc() for high order
allocations. This triggers a useless warning in the allocator as it
is a __GFP_NOFAIL allocation here:

static inline
struct page *rmqueue(struct zone *preferred_zone,
                        struct zone *zone, unsigned int order,
                        gfp_t gfp_flags, unsigned int alloc_flags,
                        int migratetype)
{
        struct page *page;

        /*
         * We most definitely don't want callers attempting to
         * allocate greater than order-1 page units with __GFP_NOFAIL.
         */
>>>>    WARN_ON_ONCE((gfp_flags & __GFP_NOFAIL) && (order > 1));
..

Fix this by changing all these call sites to use kvmalloc(), which
will strip the NOFAIL from the kmalloc attempt and if that fails
will do a __GFP_NOFAIL vmalloc().

This is not an issue that productions systems will see as
filesystems with block size > page size cannot be mounted by the
kernel; Pankaj is developing this functionality right now.

Reported-by: Pankaj Raghav <kernel@...kajraghav.com>
Fixes: f078d4ea8276 ("xfs: convert kmem_alloc() to kmalloc()")
Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@...hat.com>
Reviewed-by: Darrick J. Wong <djwong@...nel.org>
Reviewed-by: Pankaj Raghav <p.raghav@...sung.com>
---
 fs/xfs/libxfs/xfs_attr_leaf.c | 15 ++++++---------
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fs/xfs/libxfs/xfs_attr_leaf.c b/fs/xfs/libxfs/xfs_attr_leaf.c
index b9e98950eb3d..09f4cb061a6e 100644
--- a/fs/xfs/libxfs/xfs_attr_leaf.c
+++ b/fs/xfs/libxfs/xfs_attr_leaf.c
@@ -1138,10 +1138,7 @@ xfs_attr3_leaf_to_shortform(
 
 	trace_xfs_attr_leaf_to_sf(args);
 
-	tmpbuffer = kmalloc(args->geo->blksize, GFP_KERNEL | __GFP_NOFAIL);
-	if (!tmpbuffer)
-		return -ENOMEM;
-
+	tmpbuffer = kvmalloc(args->geo->blksize, GFP_KERNEL | __GFP_NOFAIL);
 	memcpy(tmpbuffer, bp->b_addr, args->geo->blksize);
 
 	leaf = (xfs_attr_leafblock_t *)tmpbuffer;
@@ -1205,7 +1202,7 @@ xfs_attr3_leaf_to_shortform(
 	error = 0;
 
 out:
-	kfree(tmpbuffer);
+	kvfree(tmpbuffer);
 	return error;
 }
 
@@ -1613,7 +1610,7 @@ xfs_attr3_leaf_compact(
 
 	trace_xfs_attr_leaf_compact(args);
 
-	tmpbuffer = kmalloc(args->geo->blksize, GFP_KERNEL | __GFP_NOFAIL);
+	tmpbuffer = kvmalloc(args->geo->blksize, GFP_KERNEL | __GFP_NOFAIL);
 	memcpy(tmpbuffer, bp->b_addr, args->geo->blksize);
 	memset(bp->b_addr, 0, args->geo->blksize);
 	leaf_src = (xfs_attr_leafblock_t *)tmpbuffer;
@@ -1651,7 +1648,7 @@ xfs_attr3_leaf_compact(
 	 */
 	xfs_trans_log_buf(trans, bp, 0, args->geo->blksize - 1);
 
-	kfree(tmpbuffer);
+	kvfree(tmpbuffer);
 }
 
 /*
@@ -2330,7 +2327,7 @@ xfs_attr3_leaf_unbalance(
 		struct xfs_attr_leafblock *tmp_leaf;
 		struct xfs_attr3_icleaf_hdr tmphdr;
 
-		tmp_leaf = kzalloc(state->args->geo->blksize,
+		tmp_leaf = kvzalloc(state->args->geo->blksize,
 				GFP_KERNEL | __GFP_NOFAIL);
 
 		/*
@@ -2371,7 +2368,7 @@ xfs_attr3_leaf_unbalance(
 		}
 		memcpy(save_leaf, tmp_leaf, state->args->geo->blksize);
 		savehdr = tmphdr; /* struct copy */
-		kfree(tmp_leaf);
+		kvfree(tmp_leaf);
 	}
 
 	xfs_attr3_leaf_hdr_to_disk(state->args->geo, save_leaf, &savehdr);
-- 
2.34.1